Naming Our Songs

After listening, how to explain?

There is no music center in the brain

the doctor observed. 

Just a dozen scattered networks

Try to describe it, then: adiago, allegro, aria. 

Barcarolle, crescendo, elegy, etude;

Fugue, glissando, hymn. Nocturnes never fail.

Poco a poco crescendo, requiem

Sforzando is fitting here: to play with sudden and marked emphasis

Tremolo, hold it.

Vibrato, here we are. Waltz.

Author: Stacey C. Johnson

I keep watch and listen, mostly in dark places.

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